May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Today has been marked as Gray Day – marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Lanark by Alasdair Gray. I read Lanark for the first time last year and fell in love with it and Alasdair. Last October I went to the Oscar Marzaroli exhibition at the Street Level Photoworks on Trongate and had…
I was pretty much a U2 fan from the get go. My brother, Quince, is only a few weeks younger than Bono…so U2’s debut release was as about as contemporary as it could get for him! I was half the age, only just coming up to my 10th birthday, but the album spoke volumes to…
“There’s a brand new talk but it’s not very clear. The people from good homes are talking this year. It’s loud and it’s tasteless and I’ve heard it before. You shout it while you’re dancing on the er er dancefloor”. Beep beep! Happy Anniversary, Scary Monsters. PLAY TEENAGE WILDLIFE AT MAXIMUM VOLUME!
Had to be done – with appropriate alteration.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Lodger album by David Bowie. A rather jumbled up travelogue of an album. The travel theme running heavily through side A of the album with: Fantastic Voyage, African Night Flight, Move On, Yassassin (Turkish for Long Live) and Red Sails. Side B’s theme alters and…
Someone: It’s quite manic the way it starts then sounds traditional rock. Almost pub rock. Post punk. But “poppy”. I love that little “doo wop” bit too. The magic of a song that sounds catchy and upbeat, but if you take note of the lyrics…there’s a slightly different story going on. But we’re looking for…
People be jumping the gun re: Life In A Day 40th anniversary. Lots of celebrating today…but there is an official Zoom press release from the time on the Dream Giver Redux site showing the release date to be April 13th…so I will be holding my horses until then. BUT…in preparation for it, you can read…
A fab article inside this month’s Electronic Sound magazine marking the 40th anniversary release of the 7th album by the “Godfathers of Electro-pop”.
And as I was retiring for bed last night (well, technically early this morning – as it was posted at midnight on the dot!) a post landed on the Simple Minds FB page… Of course there is no recording that exists of that first gig, that I am aware of anyway, but here’s a version…
And it feels timely and prudent…. At around the 3 minute 30 second mark. God, I hope he’s right!